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Charlie Albone
Have Straight Lines Had Their Moment? Why Curves Are Shaping Modern Gardens
For years, modern garden design was dominated by straight lines. Square lawns, rectangular garden beds and perfectly parallel paths became the go-to look for new homes across Australia. Clean, structured and easy to plan, they suited the architecture of the time. Today though, the trend is beginning to soften. Landscape designers are moving towards gardens that feel more natural, more inviting and more connected to the environment around them. Instead of rigid corners and sharp edges, we’re seeing flowing pathways, curved garden beds, circular lawns and organic planting layouts becoming the centrepiece of Australian backyards. It’s a subtle change, but…
A flat garden has one real problem: everything competes at the same level. Your eye has nowhere to travel. Plants blur into each other, nothing anchors the space, and the whole thing reads as one undifferentiated mass of green. Height changes that — and planter boxes are one of the more practical ways to introduce it deliberately. Varying height is how you get foreground and background to exist in the same space. Without it, a garden is just a surface. A low ground-cover at knee height, something mid-range behind it, a taller specimen further back — that sequence is what…
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